Here is what concerns me the most:

Part of it is the undoubted hurricane that is bound to happen this year (See Kindra Arneson's video @ http://www.projectgulfimpact.com/Page%200
. She's right.)

I grew up with hurricanes and have lived with them all my life. The temperature at that well will draw a hurricane there like a magnet. Heat makes a hurricane MUCH stronger.
When that hurricane happens, it is going to dump that oil and those chemicals a long way (and a long way inland) from where the hurricane actually struck.

As bad as the murder of currently-dying wildlife in the area, here is what concerns me even more:

The rain is killing crops and making them unusable NOW. What else is being killed are the _pollinators_, including those whose annual migrations take them through that area.

Between the killing chemical rain and a severe decimation of the pollinator population, IMO we are looking at a serious hit to the food supply next year when those crops should have come in.

This would be a life-threatening problem even if there were no hurricane to spread it further but, trust me, it is likely that there will be at LEAST one this year. In recent years, hurricane storms have been up to around 400 MILES in diameter, with rains spreading out much farther than that.

Folks who lie far away from the actual Gulf shore or hurricane landfall wherever it finally occurs, and who are clueless about this serious situation because they don't understand it or hurricanes, are going to have a very harsh awakening.

I think it would be a good idea for folks to get into food storage right about now. We may all wind up growing indoors under lights.

I hope there are lots of beekeepers out there in the rest of the country.

Stay well,

Ladylove